Netflix has ordered a new kids animated series, City of Ghosts, from first-time showrunner Elizabeth Ito (Adventure Time, Welcome to My Life) City of Ghosts is described as a hybrid documentary and animated series in which a group of kids discover stories around their city by communicating directly with the ghosts…

One of the most unpredictable races in years for the Oscar for Documentary Feature has come down to 15 films, narrowed from a record-breaking tally of 170 qualifiers. Two films on Syria's civil war made the cut—Matthew Heineman's City of Ghosts, about the ISIS takeover of Raqqa, and Feras Fayyad's Last Men in Aleppo…

After directing the Oscar-nominated documentary Cartel Land, on the vicious drug war spanning the U.S. and Mexico, Matthew Heineman would have been forgiven for taking on a less dangerous assignment for his next film. Instead, he turned his attention to an even deadlier conflict, Syria's brutal civil war, for his…

The Producers Guild has announced nominees for the 2018 PGA Awards’ Documentary Motion Pictures category, with subjects ranging from Jane Goodall and Ben Bradlee to the Middle East and Earth itself. Winners will be announced January 20 at the 29th annual PGA Awards at the Beverly Hilton. Here’s the list in…

Usually by this stage of awards season, a couple of documentaries have emerged as solid favorites. Last year, it was O.J.: Made in America and I Am Not Your Negro. The year before, Amy and The Look of Silence. This year, it looks like anybody's game. "It’s a much more open field this year in terms of what’s being…

Oscar-nominee Matthew Heineman's Sundance debut City of Ghosts from Amazon Studios/IFC Films is riding a critical and media wave as it heads out to theaters in New York this weekend ahead of other cities throughout summer and into fall. A24's A Ghost Story also is opening, though all similarities end with the titles…

Amazon/IFC Films have released new footage to the upcoming war documentary City Of Ghosts, which centers on a group of heroic citizen journalists who “work in secret and under constant threat, reporting on the depredations of ISIS in their home cities.” Produced and directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Matthew Heinema…